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Online Library ~ for U.Va. Alumni

Lifetime Learning provides alumni with free access to library research databases. There are five research databases that offer over 10,000 journals and articles, many of which are full-text. These databases are available free of cost to all University of Virginia alumni through your Hoosonline account. Whether you have returned to school, work for a major corporation or stay at home with children, the library databases can be a great intellectual resource. Search the databases to keep you up-to-date on the latest topics, discoveries, business books or wellness information.

How-to Videos

Mobile App

The Ebsco Mobile App is a great tool for U.Va. alumni on the go. Search the online library anytime, anywhere.

Webinar Recordings

How to Navigate the Free Online Research Library for AlumniIn this 30-minute webinar, learn how to effectively find full-text articles to provide information that you may need in your personal, health, financial or business life. An experienced librarian will demonstrate how to effectively retrieve relevant full-text articles from the five vast databases (including Business Source and Academic Search) from EBSCOhost provided to University of Virginia alumni. Techniques for finding articles on topics of interest, included targeted reading on key business and career competencies in Business Book Summaries, will be demonstrated. Refining, printing, emailing and saving results for future use (My EBSCOhost account) will also be shown.June 27 session (focuses more on the health library)July 17 session (focuses more on the business library)_________________________________________________________________The recording of the June 27 webinar is now available. Here is the Q&A from that session. Your questions were:

- What is the privacy policy, are research inquiries tracked?- Is there a downloadable library of e-books? - Is it possible to access medical textbooks and journals at the medical school through this portal?- Is there a database for books as well, or books from the U.Va. library?­Get the answers here.

Top 5 Reasons to Use the U.Va. Alumni Library Databases

2. The internet has many formats (websites, articles, biographies, quotes, etc.) which can burden you with extra work of wading through the information you need.

3. Access to Business Book Summaries, which provides comprehensive summaries of the world’s leading business books. Great for today’s busy executives.4. The Internet has no accountability for information accuracy or reliability; U.Va. Alumni Library Databases do!